Clermont-l'Hérault: Gérard Bessiere's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Clermont-l'Hérault (Hérault, INSEE 34079) has 7,014 registered voters. Its council has 29 seats; the 2026 municipal election went to a second round on 22 March. The next municipal elections are in 2032; the presidential election is on 18 April 2027.
- 7,014registered voters
- 55%turnout, 2026 round one
- 40.8%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 3,939 voted, 3,820 valid votes
- ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT !Led by Gérard Bessiere · Miscellaneous 50.7% · 1,936 · 22 seats
- Ensemble Pour Réussir 2026Led by Salvador Ruiz · Miscellaneous 35.1% · 1,339 · 5 seats
- DEMAIN CLERMONTLed by Odile Thiers · Miscellaneous right 14.3% · 545 · 2 seats
Round one, 15 March · 3,873 voted, 3,743 valid votes
- ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT !Miscellaneous 41.7% · 1,559
- Ensemble Pour Réussir 2026Miscellaneous 19.2% · 717
- 100% POUR CLERMONTMiscellaneous left 17.2% · 642
- DEMAIN CLERMONTMiscellaneous right 16.9% · 634
- CHOISIR CLERMONTMiscellaneous 5.1% · 191
Official results, Ministère de l'Intérieur. Lists are labelled with the ministry's political "nuance"; lists in small communes carry none. The list that comes first takes half the seats as a bonus, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists over 5%.
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About Clermont-l'Hérault
Clermont-l'Hérault is a commune in Hérault with 7,014 registered voters, the 20th largest of the département's 341 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 55.2% of them voted, fewer than the 60% across Hérault, and the list led by Gérard Bessiere won 22 of the council's 29 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted National Rally 28.2%, France Unbowed 25.4%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 19.3%. Ensemble (Macron camp) did 8 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 40.8%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 18.5%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Clermont-l'Hérault from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 40.8% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 18.5% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.8% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 9.7% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 5.4% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 4.1% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 2.8% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.5% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.8% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: National Rally 28.2% · France Unbowed 25.4% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 19.3% · Reconquête 7.8% · Greens 4.5%. Each political family moves by its national change since 2022 (half uniform, half proportional), scaled so that every commune adds up to our national forecast. The national forecast →
Communes of a similar size in Hérault
- Le Crès7,421 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Pézenas6,585 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Sérignan7,560 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Balaruc-les-Bains6,476 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Pignan6,419 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone7,698 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Marseillan7,863 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Palavas-les-Flots6,240 voters · Union of the right